Stewart Stremler said:
> begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, May 10, 2005 at
> 02:50:30PM -0700:
> [snip]
>> Now, if elections are postponed until after the SDMUG separation,
>> then
>> things get interesting. As Neil pointed out, board members must
>> remain
>> members of a SDCS. There are a few ways to be an SDCS member. One is
>> regular membership, the other is via membership via a SIG. I would
>> tend
>> to read that everyone is a member via a SIG, unless dues were paid
>> directly to the SDCS. There are also lifetime, honourary, and
>> corporate
>> members. These I do not think apply to the current set of SDCS Board
>> members.
>
> Paying the local SIG for a "year membership" in SDCS and then losing
> that membership when the SIG leaves would seem to be a bad thing to
> do... either prorate the membership and issue a refund, or leave 'em
> be as members until the membership expires.
IMNSHO SDMUG has gotten all the special breaks they deserve. A little
history lesson is in order. SDMUG was given special dispensation,
allowing them to pay only $6 per member, from the $30 they collected,
to SDCS. This was by a special amendment to the SDCS bylaws. SDMUG was
allowed to use the remaining $24 per member to publish their MAC
magazine. SDCS had trouble even collecting the $6 per member from
SDMUG. Then SDMUG stopped publishing their magazine, because the
member who was producing it quit. Suddenly SDMUG's treasury ballooned,
since they were no longer spending large sums to produce a slick
covered MAC magazine. By rights, they should have started paying SDCS
dues of $30/year like all the other SIG members did.
Instead they staged a coup, took over SDCS. All legal, I personally
certified the election. Then they changed the rules to allow
themselves to seperate from SDCS and take the treasury, which by law
belongs to SDCS, with them.
>> That said, as soon as SDMUG goes away, all members of the Board that
>> were in SDMUG and only SDMUG are no longer eligible to hold Board
>> seats.
>> That could leave a very empty Board.
>
> Yup. And if KPLUG fills those seats, are folks going to complain of a
> KPLUG coup?
I hope not, that's why I've been talking to the other SIG leaders.
>> It would also make some very angry ex-board members for them to be
>> told
>> this when SDMUG turns over their assets. If I were being mean and
>> evil,
>> I would verify (through the monthly SIG reports to the Board) that
>> their
>> membership is limited to only SDMUG. I would ask if SDMUG was
>> officially
>> separated from SDCS, and upon hearing yes, I would then inform them
>> that
>> their tenure as SDCS members and members of the SDCS Board was then
>> nullified. That would be quite the fireworks.
>
> Avoiding fireworks would be a very nice thing to do.
If there are fireworks, the board has only themselves to blame.
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